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And I gotta admit, I'm impressed...cut for mega spoilers

They are really very close to the book, I'd say. (Read it a long while back). It's definately no kids movie. I'd say Harry, Hermoine and Ron were played very mature by their actors. The grief, the angst, the cluelessness, the deep sadness throughout the whole movie was very well shown. I had the same feeling like when I read the book. Everything felt so without hope. Loved all the things Hermoine had in her bag (even though I imagined it to be a bit more glittering.) Harry definately became a handsome young man and Ron really well build :D I think it was very appropriate that they looked so worn out, exhausted, tired. HThe ermoine as well. I am surprised she still looks like almost like a girl. But as always I loved her smartness.
The waiting and researching and reading my be a bit boring for those who don't know the books, but I thought it was done just right. Again exactly the same feeling as I had while reading. One thing though, that didn't occure to me while reading the book was the wearing of the medaillon. It so reminded me of LOTR when it turned them into moody people...

The shock effects would have been really shocking if I hadn't known what would happen (Especially the old woman/snake part). WELL DONE! I also think the greyish/blueish/cold effect they used as overall impression worked very well too.

I felt so sad for Hedwig and even more for Dobby! I had forgotten all about his heroism by rescuing them!

The Grimmauld Place scenes made me so sad as well, knowing Sirius wouldn't be there. But then I had ingrained the fanfic "Of wolf and man" so much into my brain, that I had trouble to keep it out of my line of thought, especially when Remus was there for those few scenes. *sigh* Did they show the piano in one of the other movies? I can't remember...

The Harry/Hermoine fans certainly will be happy over a certain short scene. The Harry/Ron fans surely will find stuff to write about. Harry/Ginny...well, like it the book, it was somewhat forced on us and somehow odd feeling.

Oh one more thing. We get to know Billy Wesley, who fits right into the family.

And Grindlewald (sp?) has been also a good looking man.

Lucius Malfoy looked good with his scruffyness, all arogance gone before his master. Severus still is very believable as a Dead Eather. Both just too less in the movie.

I think that was it for now. Hope everyone enjoys it/appreciates it! (I heard it got bad critics, can't see why.)